UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK

AMERICAN NATIVE PRESS ARCHIVES 

CHARLES BRASHEAR COLLECTION 

ANPA MSS 046 

Last updated January 2003

EXTENT

Total Boxes: 1
Other Storage Formats:  None
Linear Feet: 0.75 

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance

Gift from Charles Brashear, December 5, 2002

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Charles Brashear Collection is the physical property of the American Native Press Archives, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the author or his legal heirs and assigns.  For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Restrictions on Access

The Charles Brashear Collection is open for research.

Citation Format 

Charles Brashear Collection.  American Native Press Archives. 

HISTORICAL NOTE

Charles Brashear, English-Scott-Cherokee descent, retired in 1982 after thirty years of teaching Creative Writing.  After earning his PH.D from Denver University in 1962 he taught three years at the University of Stockholm, three years at the University of Michigan, and twenty-four years at San Diego State University.  Brashear’s two major interests are history and fiction.  He has numerous publications in periodicals and has published several book-length works, including Developing Creativity (Spring Valley, CA:  Helix House, 1974; The Vision Quest of Charlie Stonecrist (Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1976); and A Snug Little Purchase: How Richard Henderson Bought Kaintuckee from the Cherokees in 1775 (La Mesa, CA:  Associated Creative Writers 1979).  In 1992 Brashear became a full-time writer.  He now lives in Clear Lake Oaks, California.  The collection consists of drafts of his novel Killing Cynthia Ann  (Fort Worth:  Texas Christian University Press, 1999).

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

The Charles Brashear Collection contains correspondence and drafts of “Killing Cynthia Ann,” which show the evolution of the novel.  Materials cover the period of 1994 to 2002.

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Transmittal Letter, December 5, 2002 Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary, September, 1994. Comments by Norma Saddler. Typescript. 165 pgs Letter, From Charles Brashear to Norma Saddler, September, 1994 Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary, September, 1994. Comments by Robert K. Johnson.  Typescript. 165 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, December, 1994. Typescript. 224 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, Version 6 (KC-6). Typescript. 253 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, Version 7. Typescript. 248 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, Version 8. Typescript. 193 pgs. Also included are versions of Chapter 19, with notes; Chapter 20, with notes; Chapter 21, with notes; Chapter 22, with notes; and Chapter 23, with notes. Typescripts. 33 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, Version 9. Typescript. 205 pgs. Killing Cynthia Ann: A Documentary Fiction, Version 10. Typescript. 226 pgs.

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Prepared by James Henry